<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397037" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Slave's Complaint</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Am I sadly cast aside,<br> On misfortune's rugged tide?<br> Will the world my pains deride<br> Forever?<br> Must I dwell in Slavery's night,<br> And all pleasure take its flight,<br> Far beyond my feeble sight,<br> Forever?<br> Worst of all, must Hope grow dim,<br> And withhold her cheering beam?<br> Rather let me sleep and dream<br> Forever!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Something still my heart surveys,<br> Groping through this dreary maze;<br> Is it Hope? -- then burn and blaze<br> Forever!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Leave me not a wretch confined,<br> Altogether lame and blind --<br> Unto gross despair consigned,<br> Forever!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Heaven! in whom can I confide?<br> Canst thou not for all provide?<br> Condescend to be my guide<br> Forever:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And when this transient life shall end,<br> Oh, may some kind eternal friend<br> Bid me from servitude ascend,<br> Forever!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Moses+Horton">George Moses Horton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397037" data-title="The Slave's Complaint de George Moses Horton" data-description="Am I sadly cast aside, On misfortune's rugged tide? Will the world my pains deride Forever? Must I dwell in Slavery's night, And all pleasure take its flight, Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? Worst of all, must Hope grow dim, And with..."></div> </div> </div>

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